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How to Sell a Haunted House
Grady Hendrix
AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "Wildly entertaining."-The New York Times "Ingenious."-The Washington Post New York Times bestselling author Grady Hendrix takes on the haunted house in a thrilling new novel that...
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A House With Good Bones
T. Kingfisher
A Barnes & Noble Best Horror Book of 2023 A haunting Southern Gothic from an award-winning master of suspense, A House With Good Bones explores the dark, twisted roots lurking just beneath the veneer of a perfect home and family. "Mom seems off."<...
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Camp Damascus
Chuck Tingle
INSTANT USA TODAY & INDIE BESTSELLER A Best Book of the Year (Vulture) - A Best Horror Book of the Year (Esquire) - An Indie Next Pick! "A joyful, furious romp through dark places, Tingle proves he's as good at fear as he is at love." ―...
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Lone Women
Victor LaValle
NATIONAL BESTSELLER * Blue skies, empty land--and enough wide-open space to hide a horrifying secret. A woman with a past, a mysterious trunk, a town on the edge of nowhere, and an "absorbing, powerful" (BuzzFeed) new vision of the American West, from the award-winning author of...
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The September House
Carissa Orlando
"Why run from a haunted house when you can stay and ignore the ghosts? Just when you thought you'd seen everything a haunted house novel could do, The September House comes along and delivers an eerie, darkly funny, and emotionally grounded book about the ghosts that haunt houses and...
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Silver Nitrate
Silvia Moreno-Garcia
NATIONAL BESTSELLER * From the author of The Daughter of Doctor Moreau and Mexican Gothic comes a fabulous meld of Mexican horror movies and Nazi occultism: a dark thriller about the curse that haunts a legendary lost film--and awakens one woman's hidden powers. ...
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Holly
Stephen King
A New York Times Notable Book Holly Gibney, one of Stephen King's most compelling and ingeniously resourceful characters, returns in this thrilling novel to solve the gruesome truth behind multiple disappearances in a midwestern town. "Sometimes the...
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The Salt Grows Heavy
Cassandra Khaw
From Cassandra Khaw, USA Today bestselling author of Nothing But Blackened Teeth, comes The Salt Grows Heavy, a razor-sharp and bewitching fairy tale of discovering the darkness in the world, and the darkness within oneself. "This brilliant novella is not to be...
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Maeve Fly
CJ Leede
A Best Horror Book of the Year (Esquire) * An Indie Next Pick! "This is gory and brutal and beautiful and painful and terrifying and a pure delight."--Stephen Graham Jones A provocative and unforgettable debut that is both a blood-soaked love...
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Episode Thirteen
Craig Dilouie
From the macabre mind of a Bram Stoker Award-nominated author, this heart-pounding novel of horror and psychological suspense takes a ghost hunting reality TV crew into a world they could never have imagined. Fade to Black is the newest hit ghost hunting reality TV show. Led...
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Don't Fear the Reaper
Stephen Graham Jones
December 12th, 2019, Jade returns to the rural lake town of Proofrock the same day as convicted Indigenous serial killer Dark Mill South escapes into town to complete his revenge killings, in this riveting sequel to My Heart Is a Chainsaw from New York Times bestselling author...
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Hemlock Island
Kelley Armstrong
A standalone horror novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Kelley Armstrong. Laney Kilpatrick has been renting her vacation home to strangers. The invasion of privacy gives her panic attacks, but it's the only way she can keep her beloved Hemlock Island, the only...
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The Beast You Are: Stories
Paul Tremblay
A haunting collection of short fiction from the bestselling author of The Pallbearers Club, A Head Full of Ghosts, and The Cabin at the End of the World. Paul Tremblay has won widespread acclaim for illuminating the dark horrors of the mind in novels and stories that push...
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The Spite House
Johnny Compton
A Best Horror Book of the Year (Esquire)! A terrifying Gothic thriller about grief and death and the depths of a father's love, Johnny Compton's The Spite House is a stunning debut by a horror master in the making--The Babadook...
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The Handyman Method
Craig Davidson
A chilling domestic story of terror for fans of Black Mirror and The Amityville Horror. When a young family moves into an unfinished development community, cracks begin to emerge in both their new residence and their lives, as a mysterious online DIY instructor...
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The Scourge Between Stars
Ness Brown
Ness Brown's The Scourge Between Stars is a tense, claustrophobic sci-fi/horror blend set aboard a doomed generation ship harboring something terrible within its walls. "A perfect scare to swallow up in one sitting." --Chloe Gong, #1 New York Times...
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Black River Orchard
Chuck Wendig
NATIONAL BESTSELLER * A small town is transformed when seven strange trees begin bearing magical apples in this masterpiece of horror from the author of Wanderers and The Book of Accidents. "This masterful outing should continue to earn Wendig comparisons to...
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Vampires of El Norte
Isabel Cañas
As the daughter of a rancher in 1840s Mexico, Nena knows a thing or two about monsters - her home has long been threatened by tensions with Anglo settlers from the north. But something more sinister lurks near the ranch at night, something that drains men of their blood and leaves them for dead....
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The Militia House: A Novel
John Milas
Longlisted for The Center for Fiction's First Novel Prize "An extraordinary novel about the quiet and not so quiet horrors of war." --Roxane Gay Stephen King meets Tim O'Brien in John Milas's The Militia House, a spine-tingling and boldly original...
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Everything the Darkness Eats
Eric LaRocca
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Burn the Negative
Josh Winning
In this incendiary mash-up of horror and suspense, a notorious slasher film is remade...and the curse that haunted it is reawakened. Arriving in L.A. to visit the set of a new streaming horror series, journalist Laura Warren witnesses a man jumping from a bridge, landing right...
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Edenville: A Novel
Sam Rebelein
"[A]n essential read for horror enthusiasts." --Booklist An unsettling, immersive, and wildly entertaining debut novel from "a major new talent!" (R.L. Stine), for fans of Paul Tremblay and Stephen Graham Jones. "[A] delightfully gooey blend of gothic, cosmic, folk and body horror...
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Bad Cree
Jessica Johns
In this gripping, horror-laced debut, a young Cree woman's dreams lead her on a perilous journey of self-discovery that ultimately forces her to confront the toll of a legacy of violence on her family, her community and the land they call home. "A mystery and a horror story about...
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Black Sheep
Rachel Harrison
Nobody has a 'normal family', but Vesper Wright's is truly... something else. Vesper left home at eighteen and never looked back - mostly because she was told that leaving the staunchly religious community she grew up in meant she could never return. But then the envelope arrives on her doorstep....
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Schrader's Chord
Scott Leeds
Heart-Shaped Box meets The Haunting of Hill House in Schrader's Chord, Scott Leeds's chilling debut about cursed vinyl records that open a gateway to the land of the dead. I told you they were real. After his estranged father's...
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Dead of Winter
Darcy Coates
From bestselling author Darcy Coates comes Dead of Winter, a remote cabin in the snowy wilderness thriller that will teach you to trust no one. There are eight strangers. One killer. Nowhere left to run. When Christa joins a tour group heading deep into the snowy expanse of the Rocky...
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The Nightmare Man
J. H. Markert
T. Kingfisher meets Cassandra Khaw in a chilling horror novel that illustrates the fine line between humanity and monstrosity. Blackwood mansion looms, surrounded by nightmare pines, atop the hill over the small town of Crooked Tree. Ben Bookman, bestselling novelist and heir to...
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Sisters of the Lost Nation
Nick Medina
Named a Most Anticipated Book by Barnes and Noble_x2219_BuzzFeed _x2219_ GoodReads _x2219_ Book Riot _x2219_ CrimeReads _x2219_ Ms. Magazine _x2219_ SheReads _x2219_ Amazon Editor's Pick _x2219_ Tor.com_x2219_ and more! A young Native girl's hunt...
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Monstrilio: A Novel
Gerardo Sámano Córdova
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The Only One Left
Riley Sager
THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Named a summer book to watch by The Washington Post, Boston Globe, USA Today, Oprah, Paste, Country Living, Good Housekeeping, and Nerd Daily "Propulsive ... a dizzying Gothic whodunit." --...
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Looking Glass Sound
Catriona Ward
A USA TODAY BESTSELLER * A Best Book of the Year (Vulture) * A Best Horror Book of the Year (Esquire) * An Indie Next Pick * A LibraryReads Hall of Fame Pick! The author of The Last House on Needless Street, Catriona Ward,...
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The Haunting of Alejandra
V. Castro
A woman is haunted by the Mexican folk demon La Llorona in this "utterly terrifying and wholly immersive . . . story about generational trauma, colonization, systemic oppression, and the horror at the heart of motherhood" (Library Journal, starred review). "Castro is...
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Fever House: A Novel
Keith Rosson
A small-time criminal. A has-been rock star. A shadowy government agency. And a severed hand whose dark powers threaten to destroy them all. "The unsettling darkness of Joe Hill meets the cryptic mystery of The X-Files, Fever House is a wild ride through a funhouse...
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Spin a Black Yarn: Novellas
Josh Malerman
Five harrowing novellas of horror and speculative fiction from the singular mind of the New York Times bestselling author of Bird Box AN ESQUIRE BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR Josh Malerman is a master weaver of stories--and in this spine-chilling...
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All Hallows
Christopher Golden
New York Times bestselling, Bram Stoker Award-winning author Christopher Golden is best known for his supernatural thrillers set in deadly, distant locales...but in this suburban Halloween drama, Golden brings the horror home. It's Halloween night, 1984, in...
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The Destroyer of Worlds: A Return to Lovecraft Country
Matt Ruff
"Another virtuoso blend of horror, action, and humor. . . . Fans will find this a worthy sequel."--Publishers Weekly In this thrilling adventure, a blend of enthralling historical fiction and fantastical horror, Matt Ruff returns to the world of Lovecraft Country and explores the meaning...
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Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology
Shane Hawk
NATIONAL BESTSELLER * A bold, clever, and sublimely sinister collection that dares to ask the question: "Are you ready to be un-settled?" "Never failed to surprise, delight, and shock." --Nick Cutter, author of The Troop and Little Heaven ...
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Starling House
Alix E. Harrow
"This book has everything you could possibly want this fall...a cursed town, a haunted house, a vivid & eerie setting--plus, characters willing to risk everything." --Reese Witherspoon (Reese's Book Club October '23 Pick) Starling House is a gorgeous, modern...
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Dead Eleven
Jimmy Juliano
"An ominously slow burn...Keep the lights on for this one."--A PEOPLE MUST-READ FOR SUMMER "Very creepy...you've been warned."--R.L. STINE "Gripping."--ANA REYES On a creepy island where everyone has a strange obsession with the year 1994, a...
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Hell Bent
Leigh Bardugo
#1 New York Times Bestseller From the author of Shadow and Bone, now a hit NETFLIX series "Readers will be wowed." -Publishers Weekly (starred review) Wealth. Power. Murder. Magic. The Ivy League is going straight to hell in the...
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The Reformatory: A Novel
Tananarive Due
A New York Times Notable Book "You're in for a treat. The Reformatory is one of those books you can't put down. Tananarive Due hit it out of the park." --Stephen King A gripping, page-turning novel set in Jim Crow Florida that follows Robert Stephens...
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Graveyard of Lost Children
Katrina Monroe
"The best kind of story-one that will both break your heart and scare the hell out of you." -Jennifer McMahon, New York Times bestselling author for They Drown Our Daughters ONCE SHE HAS HER GRIP ON YOU, SHE'LL NEVER LET YOU GO. At four months...
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Mothered: A Novel
Zoje Stage
From the USA Today bestselling author of the international sensation Baby Teeth comes a claustrophobic psychological thriller about one woman's nightmarish spiral while quarantined with her mother. Grace isn't exactly thrilled when her newly widowed mother, Jackie,...
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Sister, Maiden, Monster
Lucy A. Snyder
"Absolutely recommended for readers of the cosmic and gloriously horrific." âe*Seanan McGuire, New York TImes bestselling author Sister, Maiden, Monster is a visceral story set in the aftermath of our planet's disastrous transformation and told through the...
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Where the Dead Wait: A Novel
Ally Wilkes
An eerie, atmospheric Polar Gothic following a Victorian explorer in search of his lost shipmate and his own redemption--from the author of the "vivid, immersive" (The Guardian) horror novel All the White Spaces. William Day should be an...
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